Similarities Between Wizard Of Oz And Wicked

Up to six million Jews, seven million soviet civilians, and around three million soviet prisoners were killed in the concentration camps according to the encyclopedia of the holocaust. That is still not all of the people that died in the camps. The main character in the book time travels back into the concentration camps to fight for her life. In the movie and the book there is similarities in the allusion, the characters and the conflicts. There is differences in the characters and the scenes, and there is also similarities in the themes.

Dorothy start on her way down the yellow brick road and meets three important characters. First she meets the scarecrow with no brain. He represents Farmers and agricultural workers who are ignorant of many city things but honest and hardworking. Farmers were string supporters of the populist movement and the scarecrow ends up being a strong supporter of Dorothy throughout the entire film. Next they meet the tinman. The tinman represents industrial workers. He is a lumberjack whose body has been replaced with metal. This represents how many workers had been dehumanized and viewed as only a means to make money. Finally they meet the cowardly lion. When they first meet the lion he does his best to scare them but ends up being afraid of them. He tells them he wants to go the emerald city so the wizard can give him courage. He represents politician William Jennings Bryan. Bryan was a populist presidential candidate and the out spoken leader of the populist movement. He had been criticized as being a coward for not supporting the U.S. and its decision to go to war with Spain. Bryan wanted to get into Washington so he could change American politics. This reflects the lion wanting to go to the emerald city to get his courage from the wizard. Along the way they run into the wicked witch of the west. She tries to stop them from getting to the emerald city.

The placement of a prop or altering the way the light shines on a scene, however insignificant they may seem, are ways that the director can select and control meaning in a film. Such is in The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939), specifically during the scene where Dorothy (Judy Galand) has been locked in the Wicked Witch of the West's (Margaret Hamilton) castle room by herself; many aspects of mise-en-scene are noticeable. Many of the elements of the scene she is in contribute to her state and other aspects of the movie. The setting and props of the film all seem to centralize to where she is and how she got there. The light focus' just on Dorothy but also amplifies the intensity of the situation she is in. The behavior of

The Wizard of Oz uses film form by using similarity and repetition. With Dorothy being the main character, she is always reappearing in the film. As well as all of the characters, The Tin Man, The Lion, and The Scarecrow, have similarities to Dorothy. Each of them need something, Dorothy needs to go back home, The Tin Man needs a brain, The Scarecrow needs a heart, and The Lion needs courage. The film also progresses from the beginning to the end, as well as the characters. Dorothy starts at one spot, follows the yellow brick road and eventually makes it to her destination to see The Wizard of Oz, gets what

Judy garland who is purportedly named Dorothy dale in the move the wizard of Oz is the main protagonist in most of the Oz novels. Frank Baum created the fictional character who has been idolized in the American movie culture because of the character she has played in most movies, books, animations, games and on TV. At first she appeared in the novel the wonderful wizard of Oz which was created in 1900 and thereafter, she was able to reappear in most of the sequels showing her importance in various adaptations, notably, in the 1939 film named the wizard of Oz (Pfefferman, 2013). in the movie, the wizard of Oz, she acts as a young orphaned girl from one of the farms in Kansas which was owned by uncle henry and aunt Em. Life in the farm is considered to be composed of hard work and it provided little opportunity for Dorothy to have excitement in the farm. She is able to express her desires of exploring what was beyond Kansas through the use of a wishful song of what might be lying at the other end of the rainbow. One of the richest people in the town gets a permit of obtaining her dog, Toto, and she tries to save her life by running away. She changes her mind and decided to go back home when a tornado drops from the sky and everything changes radically in the movie.

The Wizard of Oz, written by L. Frank Baum was published on May 17, 1900, and the original movie was made in 1939 (produced by Mervyn LeRoy). Both the book and movie are similar. The story is about a little girl named Dorothy who is carried away from home by a cyclone. She ends up in the land of the Munchkins where she meets little people and a witch. Once she meets the witch she is told that in order for her to get back home she has to go to the Emerald City to speak to Oz. On her journey to Oz she meets three characters: the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion. These three characters also want something from Oz. The Scarecrow wants a brain, the Tin Man wants a heart, and the Cowardly Lion wants courage. Although the book and the

The children’s book “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz”, which was published in 1900 by L. Frank Baum is conceded as a classic story that many people love. The book gained so much popularity and that led to the release of the film adaptation, “The Wizard of Oz” in 1939. Even though the film adaptation was very similar to the original book, there were some changes in the main character (Dorothy) and the roles of the witches, which were ineffective and effective respectively. First, I will talk about Dorothy’s character and her quest to get back home. Second I will talk about the roles of the witches.

The common theme I will be exploring is “Good vs. Evil”. The theme is expressed in The Wizard of Oz” throughout the movie through the use of the antagonist, the Wicked Witch of the West pursuing the main character, Dorothy, for the shoes she wears (Fleming & LeRoy, 1939). The Wicked Witch wants the shoes for herself because they hold great power, but also because they belonged to her sister, The Wicked Witch of the East (Fleming & LeRoy, 1939). However, Glinda The Good Witch of the North, gifts them to Dorothy after she traveled to Oz, in her house and through a cyclone (Fleming & LeRoy, 1939). The house landed on the Wicked Witch of the East and

In The Wizard of Oz, the ordinary world and the beginning of the adventure are presented with stunning visual effects. Dorothy, the protagonist, is shown struggling in her ordinary world. She is confronted by the mean neighbor Miss Gulch who wants to take away Dorothy’s dog Toto and give him to the animal control authorities because of Toto’s bad behavior. Dorothy reacts childishly with a temper tantrum, begging her Uncle Henry and Aunt Em not to let Miss Gulch have her way. She confronts Miss Gulch when she tries to take Toto, saying, “You wicked old witch! Uncle Henry, Auntie Em, don't let 'em take Toto! Don't let her take him -- please!” (The Wizard of Oz). In a fit of temper, Dorothy decides to run away because she thinks that it is the only way she can protect her dog from Miss Gulch. The plot picks up the story of Dorothy’s life at a rather bleak point. Dorothy is portrayed as powerless and directionless and she does not appreciate the gifts she has in her family and life. Her character flaws and areas of growth are clear from such behavior. She seeks to be the leader of her own life but she lets temper get in the way of her enacting effective change. Furthermore, in her decision to run away Dorothy shows that she does not appreciate those who love her or the blessings of her loving home.

So we found these little people by the Munchkins. They told us to follow the Yellow Brick Road to get to the Wizard of Oz. I’m starting to get really tired of walking on this road. So I see a cornfield, a scarecrow, and a four way crossing in the road now. I hear a voice, I think Dorothy does too. I’m pretty sure it’s the scarecrow so I bark at it and Dorothy said, “Silly Todo, scarecrows can’t talk.” Then she notices it is him because he moves his arms in the opposite direction and that’s when she knows it’s him. He said he needed a brain so that he can think and wonder about things. So we keep walking on the brick road and then we spot a tin man he said he needed some oil in his joints, so we got some oil and he told us that he needed a heart to love things, so we took him on our trip to the Wizard of Oz. Now we’re back on our journey to the wizard. We see a lion that said that he needs courage so all the other lions won’t make fun of him. Now we’re at a Munchkin Palace where the good witch Glinda is nice to everyone. All of a sudden the Wicked

After collecting all three friends, Dorothy runs into the Witches castle. The Witch spies on Dorothy through her crystal ball and send out her winged monkeys to capture her; however the Witch is only after her dead sister red ruby shoes remembered Dorothy has to be dead first. Tin Man, the Lion and the Scarecrow dress up as guards and try to save her. The guards are notified that they are there and surround them. The Witch sets fire to the Scarecrow but luckily Dorothy grabs a bucket of water and throws it onto the Scarecrow but by mistake splashes the Witch causes her to melt. In gratitude for killing the Witch, the guards are set free and give Dorothy broomsticks to carry them to Oz.

In this passage, this states that even if we don’t immediately go for the most extravagant answer, it still maybe in the repertwa of our mind. The most part though we trained our mind into thinking the simplest answer is probably the right answer. It’s Occam’s razor, in the comparison of The Wizard of Oz and Pink Floyd’s album The Dark Side of the Moon, we understand that the movie completely matches up the album almost in sync. Certain parts of the movie which to be specific, like when she emerges out of her home that had just fallen into the Oz, the song Money play’s almost immediately. Or another instance when the Tin man appears and she knocks on his chest to check if it’s hollow, the song beats a heart that goes exactly with the movie.

The motion picture, The Wizard of Oz was released by the studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer on August 12,1939. The movie was adapted from “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” writings of L. Frank Baum in 1900 (Maltin 2015). The imaginary children’s fable is recognized by the enduring musical score, the many idioms used: “Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” and “Follow the yellow brick road” are phrases recalled in the movie (Wizard 1939). The fledgling Dorothy character and dog Toto traverse a pathway in Kansas and in Munchkin-land while eluding malicious barriers to the discovery of Oz. The characters encountered on the journey epitomize the traits needed to realize the goals sought: knowledge, emotion and courage. The movie exhibits evil and ethical, greed and deceit and how dreams of the future can supply the motivation to endure the horrors encountered. The original 1900 manuscript by Baum envisioned the evolution of the Nazi party and the persecution of the Jews in 1933 and is visualized in the children’s motion picture The Wizard of Oz.

“The cyclone had set the house down into a country of marvelous beauty.” is merely just the beginning of the tale of Dorothy traveling through a mysterious land, making interesting friends, and eventually slaying an evil witch. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an epic by L. Frank Baum is known by children and adults alike all over. And what exactly makes this tale of a naive little girl an epic? The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is an epic due to its characteristics, conventions, archetypes, and the way it follows the stereotypical hero’s journey.

While there are many themes that L. Frank Baum writes about in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz that focuses on a young, maturing girl named Dorothy Gale; that is living in a grey world and then suddenly her life is full of color after a cyclone. Throughout the story, Dorothy Gale is reminded that the land of Oz is beautiful and much more interesting that Kansas ever will and it takes her awhile to realize it along her adventurous plan. The two themes that stand out throughout the story is the childhood to maturity that Dorothy progresses in and a twisted way that makes you see the virtue in the story, also known as the disability of it all. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is not all just a children's fairytale. Although the land of Oz is depicted as